Usmle One Liner

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Abdominal pain, ascites, and hapatomegaly

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Budd-Chiari syndrome( posthepatic venous thrombosis)

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Adrenal hemorrhage, hypotension, DIC

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Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome
( meningococeemia)

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Back pain, fever, night sweats, weight loss

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Pott's disease (vertebral tuberculosis)

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Big toe extension/ fanning upon plantar scrape

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Babinski's sign UMN

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Bilateral Hilar adenopathy, uveitis

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Sarcoidosis(non-caseating granulomas)

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Bluish line gingiva

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Burton's line lead poisoning

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Bone pain, bone enlargement, arthritis

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Paget's disease of bone
(↑ Osteoblastic and osteoclastic activity)

Front 8

Cafe'-au-lait sports, Lisch nodules, (Iris hamartoma)

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Neurofibromatosis type I
( Bilateral acoustic neuroma =typeII)

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Chorea, dementia, caudate degeneration

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Huntington's disease

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Conjugate lateral gaze palsy, horizontal diplopia

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Internuclear opthalmagia
(damage to MLF; Bilateral = MS, Unilateral= stroke)

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Dark purple skin/mouth nodules

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Kaposi's sarcoma( usually AIDS pts associated with HHV-8

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Deep, labored breathing/hyperventiliation

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Kussmaul breathing (diabetic ketoacidosis)

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Dermitis, dementia, diarrhea

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Pellagra (niacin vit B3 deficiency)

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Dilated cardiomyopathy, edema, polneuropathy

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Wet Berberi( thiamine, vit b1 deficiency)

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Dry eyes, dry mouth, arthritis

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Sjogrens syndrome ( autoimmune destruction of exocrine glands)

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Dysphagia (esophageal webs), glossitis, and iron deficiency anemia

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Plummer-Vinson syndrome
(May progress to esophageal squamous cell carcinoma)

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Enlarged, hard left supraclavicular node

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Virchow's node (Abdominal metsatis)

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Fat, Female, Forty, and Fertile

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Acute Cholecystitis (bile duct blockage)

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Green-yellow rings around peripheral eyes

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Kayser-Fleischer rings (copper accumulation from Wilson's disease)

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Hamartomatous GI polyps, hyperpigmentation of mouth/feet/hands

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Peutz-Jegher's syndrome( genetic benign polyposis can cause bowel obstruction; ↑ cancer risk)

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Hyperphagia, hypersexuality, hyperorality, hyperdocility

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Kluver-Bucy syndrome ( Bilateral amgydala lesion)

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Hypoxemia, polycythemia, hypercapnia

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"Blue Bloater" ( chronic bronchitis, hyperplasia of mucous cells)

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Lucid interval after traumatic brain injury

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Epidural hamtoma

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No lactation postpartum, absent menorrhea, cold intolerance

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Sheehan's syndrome ( pituitary infarct)

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Nystagmus, intention tremor, scanning speech

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MS

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Oscillating slow/fast breathing

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Cheyne-Stokes respiration (central apnea in CHF or increase ICP)

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Painless jaundice

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Cancer of pancreatic head obstructing bile ducts

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Pancreatic purpura, joint pain, abdominal pain (child)

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Werner's syndrome (MEN 1)

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Pink complexion, dyspnea, hyperventilation

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"Pink Puffer" (emphysema: centroacinar = smoking, panacinar= AAT1 deficiency

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Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia. precocious puberty, cafe'-au-lait-spots, short stature in a young girl

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McCunne-Albright Syndrome (mosiac G-protein signaling mutation)

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Polyuria, acidosis, growth failure, electrolyte imbalances

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Fanconi's syndrome (Proximal tubular reabsorp defect)

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Ptosis, miosis, anhidrosis

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Horner's syndrome, sympathetic chain ganglia

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Pupil doesn't react but accommodates

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Argyll-Robertson pupil, neurosyphilis

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Rapidly progressive leg weakness that ascends ( following GI/URI)

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Guillain-Barre syndrome ( autoimmune acute inflammatory demyleinating polyneuropathy)

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Red "currant jelly" sputum

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Klebsiella pneumonia

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Renal Cell Carcinoma, hemangioblastomas, angiomatosis, pheochromocytoma

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von Hippel-Lindau disease ( Dominant tumor suppressor gene mutation)

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Resting tremor, rigidity, akinesia, postural instability

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Parkinson's disease

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Situs inversus, chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis

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Kartagener's syndrome (dynein defect affecting cilia)

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Smooth, flat moist white lesions on genitals

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Condylomata lata ( 2 syphilis

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Streak ovaries, congenital heart disease, horseshoe kidney

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Turner's syndrome ( XO, short stature, webbed necked, lymphedema)

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Thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal tumors

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Sipple's disease (MEN 2)

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Unilateral facial dropping

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Bells palsy ( LMN CN VII)

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" Worst headache of my life"

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Berry aneurysm ( PCKD association)